We are hiring for this position out of our Toronto, Vancouver and Calgary offices. Successful candidates who apply outside of these areas will be expected to relocate and reside in a location that is within a commutable distance.
About The Role As an experienced platform engineer, you build and run the infrastructure that other engineers depend on, and you measure your success by how fast and safely they can ship. Here, your customers are our data teams, and the platform you build powers products used by merchants and service providers across Canada. You have designed a platform from the ground up, lived with the consequences, and can explain what you would do differently. You know the difference between a proof of concept and a production-grade system, and you treat security, reliability, and cost as design inputs rather than afterthoughts. You are hands-on, you own what you build, and you work comfortably with engineering, security, and business partners to get the right solution into production.
About The Day-to-day
Build and evolve the data platform
Design and maintain platform infrastructure as code, with reusable modules and consistent environments
Build CI/CD golden paths that let data engineers ship safely and independently
Automate provisioning, access management, and platform changes to eliminate manual toil
Run it reliably
Own platform availability, high availability, disaster recovery, and capacity planning
Define and maintain SLOs, monitoring, and alerting across storage, compute, and orchestration
Participate in the on-call rotation and lead blameless postmortems
Secure it by design
Implement access control, secrets management, encryption, and data masking in partnership with Security
Keep the platform audit-ready through automated, policy-driven controls
Make data teams faster
Treat data engineers as your customers by reducing friction and improving developer experience
Contribute to solution design and peer code reviews with a platform and reliability lens
Evaluate new technologies and take the successful ones from proof of concept to production
About The Qualifications
6+ years in Platform, DevOps, or SRE roles, including at least one greenfield platform build you can speak to end-to-end (architecture decisions, trade-offs, and what you would do differently)
Deep, hands-on expertise with Terraform at scale, including module design, state management, and drift control across many environments (Terragrunt or equivalent patterns)
Production experience with Docker and Kubernetes, including upgrades, networking, RBAC, and incident response
Proven experience designing CI/CD pipelines as a shared platform for engineering teams (GitLab CI, Jenkins, GitHub Actions or equivalent)
Strong experience with cloud-native services on AWS, Azure, or GCP, including object storage, serverless compute, managed databases, and IAM
Experience building observability with meaningful SLOs, actionable alerting, and dashboards (Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana or equivalent)
Experience securing platforms that handle sensitive data and PII, including access control, secrets management, encryption, and working in partnership with security teams
Strong scripting and automation skills in Python or Go
Experience operating data platforms or tooling (Snowflake, Airflow, dbt, Kafka) an asset
Experience with data governance, cataloging, or masking policies (Snowflake Horizon, Purview, Unity Catalog) an asset
Experience with policy-as-code (OPA, Sentinel) an asset
Experience managing cost on consumption-based cloud platforms an asset
Experience in a financial institution or regulated environment (PCI DSS, OSFI) an asset
AWS and Azure certifications are assets
You have written a postmortem that changed how your team operates
You explain technical trade-offs clearly to both engineers and non-technical stakeholders, in writing and verbally
About Us Peoples Group is a trusted financial services company for the innovators at the forefront of Canada’s economic future. With offices in Vancouver, Calgary and Toronto, we are driving change by working alongside challenger banks, fintechs, brokers, and merchants to foster a dynamic and competitive financial ecosystem.
Our culture is built on four core behaviors:
Grit to Grow ,
Connect to Collaborate ,
Putting Clients First , and
Owning the Outcome . We believe people do not simply choose a company to work for—they choose a company that makes a positive impact in the lives of Canadians. Above all, we value people, build meaningful relationships, focus on individual strengths, and approach our work with passion.
About The Work Environment Peoples Group offers a flexible and hybrid work environment. In this role you will work a combination of in-office and remotely from home. Typically, you’ll be working regular business hours, Monday to Friday between 8:00am and 4:30pm with flexibility around start/end times.
We Offer
A hybrid work environment, enabling you to balance your personal and professional life seamlessly.
Competitive salaries, profit sharing, RRSP matching and benefits from day one.
Generous paid time off to help achieve a healthy work-life balance.
A commitment to your well-being in five key areas: Financial, Physical, Social, Career, and Community.
Hiring Process If your application is selected, you will be invited for a first interview with one of our Talent Acquisition Business Partners. Depending on the role, interviews may be conducted virtually or in-person. The hiring team will communicate any in-person requirements throughout the process.
Compensation The expected salary for this role is approximately $130,000.00 - $140,000.00 annually. Actual compensation may vary based on experience, skills, and qualifications.
NOTE: This job posting is for an existing vacancy. Peoples Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. Please accept our utmost appreciation for your interest; however, only those applicants under consideration will be contacted.
We value and celebrate individuality while fostering an inclusive workplace for everyone. If there's any way we can support or accommodate you during the selection process, please don't hesitate to let us know.
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Platform Engineering – Data Infrastructure III in Vancouver employer: Peoples Group
Peoples Group is an exceptional employer that fosters a dynamic and collaborative work culture, particularly for Solutions Architects in Toronto, Vancouver, and Calgary. With a strong commitment to employee well-being, we offer competitive salaries, profit sharing, and generous paid time off, all within a flexible hybrid work environment that promotes a healthy work-life balance. Our focus on individual strengths and meaningful relationships ensures that you will thrive while making a positive impact in the financial services sector.
